Sunday, 16 August 2026

The National Mission for a Green India is one of the national missions under which one of the following?

With reference to the National Mission for a Green India, consider the following statements:

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

In India's biennial national forest assessments, 'forest cover' refers to:

Large-scale planting of trees in natural grasslands and other open natural ecosystems is ecologically questionable mainly because:

India's commitment to create an additional carbon sink of 2.5 to 3 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent through additional forest and tree cover by 2030 forms part of its:

The Vishnugad-Pipalkoti hydroelectric project, in the news after water and debris entered its tunnel, is being built on which one of the following rivers?

The Alaknanda and the Bhagirathi unite to form the Ganga at:

Which of the following pairs of a Panch Prayag confluence in Uttarakhand and the river joining there is/are correctly matched?

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A run-of-the-river hydroelectric project is one which:

Which one of the following national parks lies in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand?

The Foreign Assets of Small Taxpayers Disclosure Scheme (FAST-DS), 2026 offers declarants limited immunity in respect of defaults under which one of the following laws?

With reference to the Foreign Assets of Small Taxpayers Disclosure Scheme (FAST-DS), 2026, consider the following statements:

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Which one of the following statements about the Foreign Assets of Small Taxpayers Disclosure Scheme (FAST-DS), 2026 is correct?

The automatic exchange of financial account information between the tax authorities of different countries takes place under a Common Reporting Standard developed by:

Mount Ararat, whose summit glacier was recently surveyed by a German-Turkish scientific team, is situated in:

With reference to the recent scientific expedition to the summit glacier of Mount Ararat, consider the following statements:

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Ice cores drilled from glaciers and ice sheets are valuable to climate science mainly because they:

Mount Ararat is a stratovolcano. A stratovolcano is characteristically:

The Subansiri river, reported in August 2026 to have risen suddenly without heavy local rain, enters India in which one of the following States?

With reference to the Subansiri river, consider the following statements:

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Himalayan rivers such as the Indus and the Sutlej, which cut deep gorges straight across mountain ranges that rose after the rivers were already flowing, are examples of:

In a Himalayan valley, a sudden and forceful rise in a river carrying large quantities of floating timber, without matching local rainfall, most typically points to:

The Central Water Commission, which maintains flood-forecasting and gauge stations on rivers such as the Subansiri, functions under the Ministry of:

The Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary, recently in the news, is situated in:

The Biligiri Ranganathaswamy Temple (BRT) Tiger Reserve, linked by forest corridors to the Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary, is ecologically important as a bridge between:

With reference to the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972, consider the following statements:

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Under the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972, the highest degree of protection, with the severest penalties for hunting, is given to animals listed in:

The grizzled giant squirrel, a mammal of the Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary, is:

The Chips to Start-up programme, which gives academic institutions access to chip-design tools and shared fabrication support, is run by the Ministry of:

Electronic Design Automation tools, shared with participating institutions under the Chips to Start-up programme, are used mainly to:

Consider the following statements with reference to the semiconductor industry:

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In the semiconductor supply chain, OSAT units are engaged in:

Leucas droupadiae, a herb newly described from coastal sand dunes in Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu, belongs to which one of the following plant families?

Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu, where the herb Leucas droupadiae was discovered, lies along which one of the following coasts?

In the IUCN Red List, a species placed in the category 'Data Deficient' is one which:

With reference to coastal sand dunes in India, consider the following statements:

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The RuTAGe Smart Village Centre (RSVC)-AMRIT platform for rural technologies has been developed by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development along with the office of the:

With reference to the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), consider the following statements:

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

The Rural Technology Action Group initiative is intended primarily to:

The subjects that State legislatures may devolve to panchayats are listed in which one of the following Schedules of the Constitution?

SraVaani 1.0, recently released by Indian researchers, is:

Word Error Rate, the standard metric for evaluating a speech recognition system, is calculated from the:

The Vaani project, which builds a large open dataset of Indian speech, is an initiative of the Indian Institute of Science along with:

With reference to SraVaani 1.0, consider the following statements:

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Which one of the following languages is NOT included in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution?